Editing Fayette County, Indiana (section)

===The County===
Fayette County was created by act of the [[Indiana General Assembly]] in December 1818 from portions of Wayne and Franklin counties and unincorporated ("[[New Purchase (1818)|New Purchase]]") territory in the northern portion of the county. It was named for the [[Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette|Marquis de la Fayette]], a French hero of the [[American Revolutionary War|Revolutionary War]].<ref>{{cite book|author=De Witt Clinton Goodrich & Charles Richard Tuttle|publisher=R. S. Peale & co.|year=1875|location=Indiana|title=An Illustrated History of the State of Indiana|url=https://archive.org/details/anillustratedhi02tuttgoog|pages=[https://archive.org/details/anillustratedhi02tuttgoog/page/n569 557]}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ |title=The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States |publisher=Govt. Print. Off. |author=Gannett, Henry |year=1905 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ/page/n123 124]}}</ref> [[Connersville]], then a small village of less than a hundred inhabitants, was designated the county seat. The county was divided into five townships ([[Harrison Township, Fayette County, Indiana|Harrison]], [[Connersville Township, Fayette County, Indiana|Connersville]], [[Jennings Township, Fayette County, Indiana|Jennings]], [[Columbia Township, Fayette County, Indiana|Columbia]], and Brownsville) in February 1819, Connersville Township containing the namesake town. In 1821, the organization of Waterloo Township subsumed the portion of Brownsville Township remaining in Fayette County, along with a portion of Harrison Township west of the Whitewater River.

The far eastern part of Fayette lying between the [[Treaty of Greenville]] treaty line of 1795 and the present eastern boundary line of Waterloo and Jennings townships was split off into the newly created [[Union County, Indiana|Union County]] in 1821. In 1826, a small part in the southeastern portion of Jackson township not included in the limits of the county in 1818, being left a part of Franklin county, was attached to Fayette County.

Four additional townships were created in later years: Posey (1823), Orange (1822), Jackson (1820) and Fairview (1851), corresponding to settlement of the area.